Thursday, October 8, 2015

And Elway called it 'good'

All this
worry over Peyton Manning and complaints on how the Denver Broncos - our 4-0 Denver Broncos,
mind you - won on Sunday reminds me of a story.

It's
about a man, a woman, an apple and a snake.

Perhaps you've heard this one?

So God had
created a world full of life - the sun, moon, plants, fish, birds and
animals. And he called it good.

Then God
asked Manning to take - sorry, wrong story - Manto take care of his world.

He told
him to watch out for the soil and make sure it gets water and nutrients so the
plants could grow and flourish. He warned Man
to be considerate of conservation because the plants would ultimately protect
him from the atmosphere. He advised utilizing natural resources to help the
world sustain itself because a good defense is always a good offense and keeps
the world from getting out of whack.

God also
advised Man to keep the world in
perspective in times of uncertainty and new growth and allow for some imbalance
while maturation and natural forces helped hold it together.

Manquickly realized what a big
challenge this was and asked God for some support and love while he took care
of something so precious. God answered with Woman, who loved Man and helped
give him strength while taking care of the world.

But one
day in this Garden of Dove Valley, a snake visited Woman and told her he had an
apple that would provide her all the knowledge and statistics she would need to
better help Man take care of the earth.

With good
intentions, Woman took a little bite of that apple and suddenly had clarity on
the world and all its problems. She saw Man exposed for the mortal being he
was, and she instantly knew she needed more of that apple.

In fact,
her insatiable desire for more statistical knowledge grew exponentially and she
had to share it with Man. He needed
to know what she knew and needed to listen to her and the sports med,
er...the snake, if he were going
to be successful.

And suddenly
she no longer felt like supporting Manin his
quest to oversee the beautiful earth. He was clearly incapable of such a task,
and God had picked the wrong being. She must give him the apple so he could
realize his inferiority.

But
despite Man‘s faults, God had no
intention of taking this task away from him. Instead, he emboldened Manwith an even greater burden
- taking care of the world in spite of knowledge, scorn, pain and lack of
faith.

And so
when God looked across his world and saw his fallible but future Hall-of-Famer
taking care of his world week in and week out, he knew Man was the right choice for this burden.

Sure he is getting older
and weaker, but he has the wisdom and skill required to fulfill God's assigned task. So finally
God asked Woman to be patient and supportive in spite of the blemishes. After all, it was part of his plan.

Story sound
familiar?

When John Elway looks at the team he has built - full of energy, dazzle, imperfection,
anger ... and at the quarterback he has entrusted it to - he calls it good.